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BMC Cancer BioMed Central Research article Open Access Anthropometric measures in relation to Basal Cell Carcinoma: a longitudinal study 1,2 1 1 Catherine M Olsen* , Maria Celia Hughes , Nirmala Pandeya and Adèle C Green 1,2 Address: 1Cancer and Population studies group, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia and 2School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Email: Catherine M Olsen* - Catherine.Olsen@.au; Maria Celia Hughes - Maricel.Hughes@.au; Nirmala Pandeya - Nirmala.Pandeya@.au; Adèle C Green - Adele.Green@.au * Corresponding author Published: 27 March 2006 Received: 10 November 2005 Accepted: 27 March 2006 BMC Cancer 2006, 6:82 doi:10.1186/1471-2407-6-82 This article is available from: /1471-2407/6/82 © 2006 Olsen et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: The relationship between anthropometric indices and risk of basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is largely unknown. We aimed to examine the association between anthropometric measures and development of BCC and to demonstrate whether adherence to World Health Organisation guidelines for bod